Has GDocs added features recently? Seemed rather stagnant over its life to me (like most Google products - initial enthusiasm and then they lose interest and go do something else).
Personally, without something as fundamental as indents in spreadsheet cells it is useless to me. And to manyotherpeople, it seems. I realize it's only one feature of many possible ones, but it's an example of what happens when you have a company providing your software as opposed to a community. Their priorities (and attention-deficit problems) always outweigh yours.
Seriously, everyone else in the tech industry should just give up. Apple won technology. let them have it. Everyone else in the tech industry, please go back to school. Let Linux die, let Android die, let the PC die. Everyone else should just stop right now and do something else.
If all you value is ease of use, Apple makes fine products.
If you are a hacker, want power, or are smart, Apple makes mediocre products.
Many more iOS apps integrate with Dropbox rather than SugarSync. Not debating which one is a better product, but if you want to save files, edit files, etc. from the cloud on your iOS device, DB is a better choice.
Intel has been unable to provide a chip that offered significantly different performance from rival offerings, and failed to convince TV makers such as Samsung Electronics Co. or Sony Corp. that they needed its chips, Acree said.
OK, geeky people, what does that mean?
I interpret it as "producing chips for TVs is a commodity business and there's little opportunity to introduce anything new." Was Intel just late to the TV chip party and other chipmakers had it sewn up?
I would think even as a commodity producer, Intel would be competitive just because they have huge scale.
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought both KVM and Xen were "Take over the whole box" kinds of VM. You install KVM or Xen as the host OS, then can create whatever guests you want. Virtualbox and VMware (at least the Player and Workstation), by contrast, are applications. You run the application on top of your host OS and create VMs in that.
The real reason that the Linux dictators decided not to settle on an ABI is so they can try to pressure and force manufacturers to release their drivers as GPL software.
The Linux community has been practically gleeful to get binary blob drivers.
The *BSD community is the one complaining about not getting source.
But one problem that continues is performance. I can only run ONE guest OS at a time. If I want to create another guest OS, I have to stop the first one. Interestingly, while the performance of the second one drops to crap, the first OS runs just fine.
I've run four instances of Linux VMs at the same time without issue. Underlying host was a dual-core, 8GB (DDR2) machine.
So, needless to say I've done some reading up on this...from what I can tell, the law does actually seem to be on the side of the fascists because civil liberties have eroded so badly.
What does that mean? The law is not old iron in the rain - it doesn't rust or "erode". So what exactly was the law and how has it changed?
The mall cop could ask you to leave, and have you arrested for trespassing if you don't, but he sure as hell couldn't confiscate your camera without a serious lawsuit.
This exact thing happened to me in the U.S. Visited an old mall where I worked 20 years ago. Took out my camera (probably more noticeable because it was an actual camera, not a cell phone) and snapped some pics for nostalgia's sake. A guard walked up to me and told me that taking pictures was not allowed. I hesitated and she said that if I didn't put the camera away, I'd be asked to leave.
She didn't say it, but presumably if I refused to leave, she'd call the police and charge me with trespassing.
Perfectly within their rights - it's private property and I could make the same rule at my house if I wanted.
However, the idea that they can confiscate your camera is completely nuts.
I see a lot of talk about technical solutions, not using free email, et cetera. If you think things through, you will see that none of that matters at all. Firstly, it's a safe bet that someone in the US Government not hampered by even the pretense of following the law already had all Jacob's official correspondence, encrypted or not. As I've posted multiple times already (see my previous posts), AUSCANNZUKUS has had access to a production quantum computer system capable of cracking PKI for many years, running as a virtual quantum machine on a winner-take-all style recurrent topological quantum neural network based on a physical system composed of non-abelian anyons (e.g. solitons) in a two-dimensional electron gas
Told you not to use the cheap alloys in your tin hat, but did you listen? No.
Neither do I, and every time I hear about a new release of this phone or that phone, and how it requires this contract or that contract at the stated price, I smile and remind myself how much money I've saved.
Hmmm, doesn't own a cell phone, Slashdot username is 'symbolic' (LISP machine maker)...rms, is that you!?
And, you know, SQL databases, too, since they scale very well.
BTW, why do you jump to the datastore as the scalability problem? It's not mentioned in the article. For all we know, it could be their internal Cisco routers that are overloaded or their WAN links or their 10-year-old Windows 2000 servers or something else.
Yes, but I believe you can fallback to SMS with iOS5.
From an iPod?
iMessage works across iOS devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad) and does not require a cellular plan, so on a large number of devices, there is no SMS to fall back on.
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Has GDocs added features recently? Seemed rather stagnant over its life to me (like most Google products - initial enthusiasm and then they lose interest and go do something else).
Personally, without something as fundamental as indents in spreadsheet cells it is useless to me. And to many other people, it seems. I realize it's only one feature of many possible ones, but it's an example of what happens when you have a company providing your software as opposed to a community. Their priorities (and attention-deficit problems) always outweigh yours.
Table salt has a 1:1 correlation to sodium chloride.
Some of us like to get some potassium in our "table salt".
...honestly, he doesn't have something more interesting to do with his time?
Seriously, hundreds of posts and not one "a keyboard, how quaint" reference yet.
Turn in your geek cards, Slashdot readers.
Seriously, everyone else in the tech industry should just give up. Apple won technology. let them have it. Everyone else in the tech industry, please go back to school. Let Linux die, let Android die, let the PC die. Everyone else should just stop right now and do something else.
If all you value is ease of use, Apple makes fine products.
If you are a hacker, want power, or are smart, Apple makes mediocre products.
(What do I mean? The command line, emacs, etc.)
The US Postal Service made a series of CSI-type movies a few years ago...one of them was "Work @Home Scams" and covered remailers:
Work @Home Scams
It's well done for a government video...though why the government needs to be making action movies is a separate question.
Many more iOS apps integrate with Dropbox rather than SugarSync. Not debating which one is a better product, but if you want to save files, edit files, etc. from the cloud on your iOS device, DB is a better choice.
Uh, what?
XP laptop and desktop users are waiting out Windows 7 so they can 'upgrade' to a crappy tablet interface?
That's some good stuff you're smoking.
Exactly. If people didn't move to Win 7, they're not moving. The only thing that will get people off Win XP is driver support.
Umm, that's not science. One data point means nothing.
Were we doing science here? I thought this was a message board.
Intel has been unable to provide a chip that offered significantly different performance from rival offerings, and failed to convince TV makers such as Samsung Electronics Co. or Sony Corp. that they needed its chips, Acree said.
OK, geeky people, what does that mean?
I interpret it as "producing chips for TVs is a commodity business and there's little opportunity to introduce anything new." Was Intel just late to the TV chip party and other chipmakers had it sewn up?
I would think even as a commodity producer, Intel would be competitive just because they have huge scale.
Eh, machines of that era required constant manual supervision, and uptime was measured in hours, not months or years.
I'm not sure what datacenter you were working in, but in general that is quite untrue.
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought both KVM and Xen were "Take over the whole box" kinds of VM. You install KVM or Xen as the host OS, then can create whatever guests you want. Virtualbox and VMware (at least the Player and Workstation), by contrast, are applications. You run the application on top of your host OS and create VMs in that.
I could be completely wrong.
The real reason that the Linux dictators decided not to settle on an ABI is so they can try to pressure and force manufacturers to release their drivers as GPL software.
The Linux community has been practically gleeful to get binary blob drivers.
The *BSD community is the one complaining about not getting source.
But one problem that continues is performance. I can only run ONE guest OS at a time. If I want to create another guest OS, I have to stop the first one. Interestingly, while the performance of the second one drops to crap, the first OS runs just fine.
I've run four instances of Linux VMs at the same time without issue. Underlying host was a dual-core, 8GB (DDR2) machine.
Photography is an artform and its basically impossible to create an objective photograph.
This sentence would mean exactly the same thing without the word "basically".
Think it is bad for taking photos? Try living barefoot.
Good Lord, why? Footgear was one of mankind's earliest and best inventions.
So, needless to say I've done some reading up on this...from what I can tell, the law does actually seem to be on the side of the fascists because civil liberties have eroded so badly.
What does that mean? The law is not old iron in the rain - it doesn't rust or "erode". So what exactly was the law and how has it changed?
The mall cop could ask you to leave, and have you arrested for trespassing if you don't, but he sure as hell couldn't confiscate your camera without a serious lawsuit.
This exact thing happened to me in the U.S. Visited an old mall where I worked 20 years ago. Took out my camera (probably more noticeable because it was an actual camera, not a cell phone) and snapped some pics for nostalgia's sake. A guard walked up to me and told me that taking pictures was not allowed. I hesitated and she said that if I didn't put the camera away, I'd be asked to leave.
She didn't say it, but presumably if I refused to leave, she'd call the police and charge me with trespassing.
Perfectly within their rights - it's private property and I could make the same rule at my house if I wanted.
However, the idea that they can confiscate your camera is completely nuts.
I see a lot of talk about technical solutions, not using free email, et cetera. If you think things through, you will see that none of that matters at all. Firstly, it's a safe bet that someone in the US Government not hampered by even the pretense of following the law already had all Jacob's official correspondence, encrypted or not. As I've posted multiple times already (see my previous posts), AUSCANNZUKUS has had access to a production quantum computer system capable of cracking PKI for many years, running as a virtual quantum machine on a winner-take-all style recurrent topological quantum neural network based on a physical system composed of non-abelian anyons (e.g. solitons) in a two-dimensional electron gas
Told you not to use the cheap alloys in your tin hat, but did you listen? No.
...and voted for the original.
>> I don't even own a cell phone
Neither do I, and every time I hear about a new release of this phone or that phone, and how it requires this contract or that contract at the stated price, I smile and remind myself how much money I've saved.
Hmmm, doesn't own a cell phone, Slashdot username is 'symbolic' (LISP machine maker)...rms, is that you!?
It's as if millions of souls cried out ... and were suddenly silenced.
Blackberry users have no souls. They're all PHBs.
And, you know, SQL databases, too, since they scale very well.
BTW, why do you jump to the datastore as the scalability problem? It's not mentioned in the article. For all we know, it could be their internal Cisco routers that are overloaded or their WAN links or their 10-year-old Windows 2000 servers or something else.
Yes, but I believe you can fallback to SMS with iOS5.
From an iPod?
iMessage works across iOS devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad) and does not require a cellular plan, so on a large number of devices, there is no SMS to fall back on.
Apparently the filers are using their inbox as a to-do list rather than wanting to categorize information to find it more easily.
God forbid that people would adapt a general-purpose tool to meet their personal needs.